Chapter I: Introduction

MANY of the girls who will read this book have already made the acquaintance of Betty Wales, and know all about her adventures at Harding College, from her rollicking freshman days to the time when she was a “grave and reverend senior”--and was always being mistaken for a freshman, nevertheless. Mary Brooks graduated from Harding a year before Betty, and she always considered that this gave her the privilege of patronizing her friends in 19--, Betty’s class. Madeline joined 19-- in its sophomore year, and Babbie Hildreth (she and her friends Babe and Bob were known collectively as the three B’s) was another of the shining lights of that famous class. She and Madeline and Betty planned the tea-room, though only in fun, during a trip abroad that came as a grand finale to their college days. You can read all about that in “Betty Wales, B. A.,” which also tells about Mary Brooks’s “impromptu” wedding. But you will have to go back to “Betty Wales, Senior,” to find out how Mary’s “little friends” discovered that she was interested in Professor Hinsdale. There are a lot of other things that you will want to know about Betty and her friends--if you like them--in “Betty Wales, Freshman,” “Betty Wales, Sophomore,” and “Betty Wales, Junior.”

MARGARET WARDE.

CONTENTS

I. UNPLEASANT DISCOVERIES 9
II. BETTY WALES, “M. A.” 24
III. THAT TEA-ROOM AGAIN 39
IV. PLANS AND PARTIES 56
V. THE REAL THING 74
VI. EUGENIA FORD’S LUNCHEON 97
VII. MARY, THE PERFECT PATRON 113
VIII. YOUNG-MAN-OVER-THE-FENCE 128
IX. AN ORDER FOR A PARTY 145
X. UNEXPECTED VISITORS 162
XI. THE ADVENT OF THE PLOSHKIN 181
XII. A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE 198
XIII. MORE “SIDE-LINES” 221
XIV. THE REVOLT OF THE “WHY-GET-UPS” 236
XV. A SEA OF TROUBLES 252
XVI. THE MYSTERY SOLVED 270
XVII. A MAGNATE TO THE RESCUE 291
XVIII. A ROMANCE AND A BURGLARY 307
XIX. THE AMAZING MR. SMITH AND OTHER AMAZEMENTS 329
XX. A FINAL EXCITEMENT 346

Illustrations

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“WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?” _Frontispiece_
“HOW ARE WE GOING TO WORK?” 62
SHE STOPPED THE GIRLS AS THEY WENT OUT 117
“THIS TEA-SHOP CLOSES AT SIX” 148
TRUE STORIES OF DOLLS 190
THEY INTERCEPTED THE PRESIDENT 303
“COME ALONG NOW” 325

Betty Wales & Co.

Betty Wales & Co.